PowerShell Add Quotes to String

Using Backtick Characters

Use backtick characters to add double quotes to string in PowerShell.

Backtick character is escape character in PowerShell. Here, it is used to escape double quotes in the String.

Use backtick characters to add single quotes to string in PowerShell.

Using String Concatenation Operator

Use string concatenation operator (+) to add double quotes to string in PowerShell.

Use string concatenation operator (+) to add single quotes to string in PowerShell.

Using Format Operator

Use format operator to add double quotes to string in PowerShell.

Use format operator to add single quotes to string in PowerShell.

We used the format operator (-f) to format strings by inserting values into the placeholders within the string. This operator works using the format string, which contains placeholders indicated by curly braces ({}). These placeholders can have format specifiers illustrating how the value must be formatted.

Now, the point is which value will be inserted into the placeholders? For that, the -f operator is used. The values to be inserted into the specified placeholders are mentioned as arguments to the -f operator. In the above example, {0} is the placeholder while $name is the argument to the -f operator. Don’t forget to enclose the {0} within quotes; refer to the above examples to find out how to have single or double quotes.

Using Replace() Method

Use the Replace() method to add double quotes to the string in PowerShell.

Use the Replace() method to add single quotes to a string in PowerShell.

The Replace() method took two arguments. The first is the string we want to replace, and the second is the replacement. Don’t forget that Replace() does a case-sensitive replacement.

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Using -replace Operator

Use the -replace operator to add double quotes to the string in PowerShell.

Use the -replace operator to add single quotes to a string in PowerShell.

The -replace method is similar to the Replace() method, replacing the old string with a new string, but it does case-insensitive replacement, which is the same as the -ireplace operator does. Use the Replace() method or the -creplace operator for case-sensitive replacement.

Using New-Object Cmdlet

Use the New-Object cmdlet to create a string object having double quotes in PowerShell.

Use the New-Object cmdlet to create a string object having single quotes in PowerShell.

We used the New-Object cmdlet to create an instance of the String class. Then, the String() constructor was used to initialize the $string with a value containing the quotes, whether double or single.

Using ForEach Cmdlet to add double quotes to each element of array

Use the ForEach cmdlet to add double quotes to each array element where each element is a string value.

Use the ForEach cmdlet to add single quotes to each array element where each element is a string value.

In the above examples, we used the array operator (@()) to create an array having string values and stored it in the $stationary variable. Then, we piped $stationary to the ForEach-Object cmdlet to iterate over $stationary. In each iteration, we enclosed the current element, represented by $_, within quotes.

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